JAMIE SAVAGE of Cawder is the new Irish men's amateur open champion.
He won the title at Royal Dublin Golf Club yesterday with a total of 288, the only man in a huge, star-studded field to finish with a level-par aggregate after four testing rounds.
Savage finished two shots clear of a quartet of players that included Irish close champion and University of Stirling student Cormac Sharvin and the long-time leader Gary McDermott from Carton House.
The Scot's second-round 68, after an opening 74, put him in a strong position at halfway, but after a 75 in the third round he needed something close to par to clinch victory over the final 18 holes: a feat he managed.
Savage's final round of 71 featured an impressive level-par back nine, and clinched a first major international win for the Scot, a 19-year-old who is coached by Stewart Savage - his father - who is professional at Dalmuir golf club.
Savage is the first Scot to lift the title since Gavin Dear in 2009.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article